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Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867.

To ———. 1. “Now tripping forth, the fairy-footed Spring”

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NOW tripping forth, the fairy-footed Spring

Awakens bud and bloom, and, liberal, fills

The air with balm, mantling the sunny hills

With living green. The purple martins wing

Their wheeling course, and, twittering sharply, sing

In treble notes a strange and keen delight;

And as they upward soar in airy flight,

Shrill through the sapphire arch their pæans ring.

O sweetheart mine! shall I unfold the theme

Bird, bud, and blossom teach our swelling hearts?

Thy tell-tale blush replies! Nor idle deem

Nor slight the lesson Nature thus imparts,

While even Zephyr from his flight above,

Stooping to kiss thy cheek, sighs tenderly of LOVE!